State Ex Rel. State Board of Charities & Reform v. Bower

The State of Wyoming appeals from a summary judgment of the district court rejecting an alleged creditor’s claim of its Wyoming State Hospital against the defendant as administrator of the estate of Daisy Wilkinson, deceased.

In substance the State’s complaint alleged Daisy Wilkinson was committed to the Wyoming State Hospital as an insane person during the month of July, 1918, and was received and kept in that State institution at public expense until June 3, 1957, on which date she died; that the reasonable, customary and established value of her care and maintenance amounted to $12,001.35,…